Normally on wood floors you can tack it down. How do I lay carpet on cencrete? Do I have to glue it down? Also, I'd like to give it a bit of cushion being that its concrete and all. Do they make some type of rubber pad to put under the carpet to give it a bit of cushion?How does it all go together? Do I glue the rubber mat down, then glue the carpet to the mat or what?

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If the concrete is dry and no moisture is getting in, just glue and screw down the tack strips. You can use regualr padding. You can also lay down a thin plastic just to make sure the moisture stay off.

There is a tackstrip (tackless) made for concrete. Any flooring supply house as well as the big chains will have it. Any pad will due. There is some heavy rubber pad out there designed for crete. Tape the seams and the perimeter to the tackless. Instead of tape you may use seamsealer. install carpet the same as any other.

Originally Posted By twonami:at the TV station I worked at they used carpet "tiles" on the raised floor. It was held down with a removable adhesive

When I operated for the airlines, our ops dept had a "hollow" floor for wiring, the carpet squares were nice, couldn't tell with the pattern they had, and when people needed to go down in there, they pelledd right out and back down.

Originally Posted By twonami:at the TV station I worked at they used carpet "tiles" on the raised floor. It was held down with a removable adhesive

When I operated for the airlines, our ops dept had a "hollow" floor for wiring, the carpet squares were nice, couldn't tell with the pattern they had, and when people needed to go down in there, they pelledd right out and back down.